The Clause That Can’t Fire

The Clause That Can't Fire · A Wireframe News essay The AI labs are more afraid than they have ever been, and none of them can stop. The reason is written into how each one was founded. On October 9, Axios reported that executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are gaming out a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event they expect. This episode asks why the people building it, this afraid, keep going: the researchers who now talk about AI as "they" (counted against their own earlier interviews and 43 of the labs' system cards), the founding emails where the distrust between the labs starts, and the clause in OpenAI's charter that was written to stop the race, and why it hasn't. 0:00 Opening 2:51 How afraid 4:07 Them 8:37 The public answer 9:57 The private answer 13:30 The clause that can't fire 16:46 The marketing objection 17:56 The day after 18:38 What you can do before the day after Read the essay, with every source linked: https://read.wireframenews.com/p/the-clause-that-cant-fire Read in an AI voice built from Karl Herbst's own. Wireframe News: power, drawn to scale. Subscribe free at https://read.wireframenews.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit read.wireframenews.com